Quotes About Transformation

One must lose one's life to find it.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

The only thing constant is change

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.